6/3/2023 0 Comments John and virginia marshall![]() ![]() And some citizens were afraid that the judiciary was in mortal danger. Without precedents and with passions running high, the Presidency and the Congress passed for the first time from one party to another. ![]() Jefferson took the oath of office on March 4, 1801. Before leaving office, Adams had quickly named his judicial appointees - the famous “midnight judges.” Enraged, one Republican from Kentucky called Adams’s tactics “the last effort of the most wicked, insidious and turbulent faction that ever disgraced our political annals.” Abolishing circuit duties for the Justices and providing other reforms, this law set up new circuit courts with 16 judges. In Congress, the lame-duck Federalists had passed a law to reduce the Court’s membership to five (one less Justice for a Republican President to name). Marshall skillfully asserted the Court’s mightiest power and dignity in its first great crisis. “My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life.” John Adams, President ![]()
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